Stonewall and the emergence of the

Gay and Lesbian movement

The Stonewall riot

27 June 1969, 57 Christopher St.

“Stonewall was a symbolic end to victim status.’

Opposition

Military and Masculinity

Religion

Medicine

Popular culture

Lack of allies

Precedents

DaVinci, Tchaikovsky

Whitman, Melville

Oscar Wilde

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)

World War II

Leaving small town America

Single-sex units

Cities, Bars etc. San Francisco.

Further emergence of ‘gay community’ in larger cities

Strayhorn/ Auden

The 1950/60s

1950 Mattachine Society

1956 Howl

1956 James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

sex and drugs and rock and roll

Gay liberation

Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activist Alliance

Gay Pride

Harvey Milk, 1930-78 Counterculture to

politics Elected to San

Fancisco Board of Supervisors, January 1978

The ‘Briggs initiative’

Shot on 27 Nov 1978

May 1979 ‘White Night Riots’

Remembering Stonewall